#probability

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#born #certainty #industries #information #new

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors! ↗

— Nellie Bly

#comparison #driven #easier #fault #gallows

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

#affecting #certainty #change #circumstances #demand

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#care #connected #higher #individual #involved

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#cause #deter #fail #just #may

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#impossibility #impossible #maths #nature #possibility

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. ↗

— Hans Jonas

#nature #probability #nature

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. ↗

— Hans Bender

#forms #free #new #open #probability